Improvement in expansive bits



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Improvement in Expansve-Bts.

N0. 131,946. Patented Oct. 8, i872.-

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ELLsWOnTH FORD, OF WEsTvILLE, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN EXPANSIVE BITS.v

Specification forming:r part of Letters Patent No. 131,946, dated October 8, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

` Beit known that I, ELLSWORTH FORD, of Westville, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented an EX- pansiveBoring-Bit, of which the following is a specification:

The invention relates to that class of woodborers in which the same bit combines a cutter both for making the circumferential incision and for taking out a core. It Will iirst be fully described in connection with all that is necessary to afull understanding thereof, andV a1 is a plane face, and a2 is a notch at the upper end thereof, which receive the corresponding-V ly-constructed face d and projection d1 of the shank of clamp D. The clamp D is itself of suitable width, and provided with a recess, d,

extending from shoulder d3 to the end. The cutter-headB has an angular transverse channel, b, and cross-rib b1, which may be a dovetail, or of any preferred shape. The cutter E has an angular shank, c, which iits into channel b, and a groove, c1, which receives the rib b1 of clamp. The cutter E being thus fitted into the head B, the shoulder d3 lof the clamp is broughtv against the edge e2 of the cutter, While the projection d1, on the end of clamp D, is placed in the notch a2 of shank'A, when the sleeve G is screwed down. The boring-tool is nov:r ready for work, and whenever a less or l greater diameter is desired in the aperture to be bored, then the sleeve C is unscrewed and the tool adjusted accordingly.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new," and `desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The shank A, head B, sleeve C, and clamp D, combined with the tool E, as and for the purpose described.

ELLSWORTH FORD.

Witnesses SOLON C. KEMON, THos.-D. D. OURAND. 

